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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS ID1110040

Elk Mountain Farms Backwoods

Operator location Bonners Ferry, Idaho - 0% of 49 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 200 served per SDWIS.

200
People served (this PWS)
49
EPA violations (this PWS)
0
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Elk Mountain Farms Backwoods standing, mid SDWIS violation third

0% of 49 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%).

The verdict

Elk Mountain Farms Backwoods lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (200; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

49
Total EPA violations on record
0%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
200
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
4
County
Boundary
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
49
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Barium MR 2 2002
Cadmium MR 2 2002
Mercury MR 2 2002
Selenium MR 2 2002
Chromium MR 2 2002
Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) MR 1 1993
2,4-D MR 1 1993
2,4,5-TP MR 1 1993
ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE MR 1 1993
Benzene MR 1 1993
Carbon tetrachloride MR 1 1993
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 1 1993
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 1993
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 1993
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 1 1993
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 1993
Ethylbenzene MR 1 1993
1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE MR 1 1993
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 1 1993
Trichloroethylene MR 1 1993
Toluene MR 1 1993
LASSO MR 1 1993
Nickel MR 1 2002
Antimony, Total MR 1 2002
Beryllium, Total MR 1 2002
Thallium, Total MR 1 2002
Nitrate MR 1 2004
Chlordane MR 1 1993
Heptachlor MR 1 1993
BHC-GAMMA MR 1 1993

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Elk Mountain Farms Backwoods has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 49), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Elk Mountain Farms Backwoods

0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ID1110040.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

49 violations · 200 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Elk Mountain Farms Backwoods

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Idaho compares on the same EPA violation measures. Idaho systems
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater